Zubaz Ecstasy

Zubaz pants, along with bell bottoms and parachute pants, might be the silliest things we can use to adorn our lower torsos. But that doesn't change the weird hippness of those crazy Rutgers 'R' pants on the sideline making me feel all warm and fuzzy, like the blocked punt that sealed the deal.
8 and freakin 0. My wife now pinches me the morning after each of Rutgers' wins just to make sure I am not dreaming. I am sure people are grumbling about the 14 points scored on two crazy plays (the sack and fumble return and the punt block/smash recovered by Frierson), and without them RU would not have won. I can't begin to tell you how irrelevant that analysis is. Do I really need to go back to Rutgers games through the ages...if any Penn State didn't have those 2 80 yard bombs, we would have won; if only Va Tech didn't have those two int's returned for touchdowns, we would have won; if only Miami didn't decide to play in the fourth quarter two years ago, we would have pulled off the biggest upset in history...please. The games are the games, the victories are victories, and while poll voter may be swayed by the margin of victory, I am simply satisfied with the W.
And let's ponder for a moment being #12 in the BCS. Let's consider who Rutgers is in the midst of. How about no one in the ACC is ahead of them, including powers like Miami (not in the BCS, but they are rising in the WWE rankings), Va Tech (25 in the BCS), and Boston College (15), so take that you traitors/defectors. I am not going to say Rutgers would be having a similar fate in the Big Tem or SEC, but at least you can't laugh them out of the room as in years past. And again last night, a weakness seemed to be exploited, that Do. Brown running all over the place, but eventually the D held it's ground, and in spite of all those yards, only 13 points wound up on the scoreboard. I mean this is the sentence that is on the lips of various sports reports and columnists, USC, Notre Dame, Cal, Tennessee, Rutgers (8-12 in the BCS). Sure, there are the obvious comparisons to K-State and Northwestern, and the coming years will tell if this is a two year flash in the pan, or if it is truly a turnaround, and that will distinguish if this means the Knights have turned the corner, or if they are just lost in a nice neighborhood for a few years.
The next game will have almost two weeks of hype, another Rutgers biggest game in their history arrives with Louisvile coming into the stadium, which needs a nickname by the way...hmm, seems like a ponder for another post perhaps, but I am open to suggestions.